Meaning of Blot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
2. A Norse (and modern Heathen) ceremonial offering.
3. A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
   broadly
4. A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
5. An exposed piece in backgammon.

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Examples

“England bound in with the triumphant ſea, / Whoſe rocky ſhore beates backe the enuious ſiedge / Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with ſhame, / With Inky blottes, and rotten Parchment bonds.”

“When I and some others subscribed our names / To a plot for expelling my master king James [James II of England]; / I withdrew my subscription by help⟳ of a blot, / And so might discover⟳ or gain⟳ by the plot: […]”

“Her utmost powers of expression (which were certainly not great in ink) were exhausted in the attempt⟳ to write⟳ what she felt on the subject of my journey. Four sides of incoherent and interjectional beginnings of sentences, that had no end⟳, except blots, were inadequate to afford⟳ her any relief. But the blots were more expressive to me than the best composition; for they showed me that Peggotty had been crying all over the paper, and what could I have⟳ desired more?”

“[…] He was blind; he could not see⟳ the stars Glinting among the wraiths of wandering cloud; Queer blots of colour, purple, scarlet, green, Flickered and faded in his drowning eyes.”

“But, like⟳ more than one similar North Wales beauty-spot, there had to be (at least at the time of which I write⟳), a quarry, or ironworks, or some kind of industrial plant⟳, which lay⟳ perpetually under a cloud of yellowish smoke⟳—literally a blot on the landscape.”

“Thy ouerflow of good, conuerts to bad, / And thy abundant goodneſſe ſhall excuſe / This deadly blot, in thy digreſſing ſonne.”

“He that reproueth a ſcorner, getteth to himſelfe ſhame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himſelfe a blot.”

“Thus man devotes his brother, and deſtroys; / And worſe than all, and moſt to be deplored / As human nature’s broadeſt, fouleſt blot, / Chains him, and taſks him, and exacts his ſweat / With ſtripes, that mercy with a bleeding heart / Weeps when ſhe ſees inflicted on a beaſt.”

“The only blot on this service is that of its Kentish Town connections, which throughout the day in many cases just miss⟳ the St. Pancras-Luton stopping trains.”

“These show⟳ us the importance of verbal activity at a blót, specifically verbal activity aimed at producing a result⟳, presumably by means of intervention by the deities.”

“In the past, before Christianity spread⟳ across Europe, the average blót would generally have⟳ involved some sort⟳ of animal sacrifice.”

“He soon comes back to land⟳, makes a largely undescribed blót sacrifice to Óðinn, and receives confirmation of his god's approval in the flight of two cawing ravens.”

“Do you know⟳ how to blót? / Do you know⟳ how to slaughter?”

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